Duke-related links
Related books and online resources
- Graduate textbooks
- A key reference that we will use during the semester is the
book
Statistical Physics, Second Edition", by Lev Landau and Evgeny
Lifshitz.
This second edition is available online for free. However, if you
buy the book for yourself, you should purchase the more recent third
edition ("Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1").
- Other graduate-level resources:
- Stephen Brush, "Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of
Matter from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager", Princeton
U. Press (1983). History of science book on statistical mechanics.
- Michael
Cross, Statistical
Physics, online lectures.
- Phillip Duxbury, Statistical
Mechanics, online lectures and other resources.
- Kerson Huang,
Statistical Mechanics, Second Edition.
- Mehran
Kardar, Statistical
Physics of Particles . MIT has posted video lectures
related to this
textbook here.
- Raj Pathria and
Paul Beale,
Statistical Mechanics, Third Edition. Errata for the book can be
found
here .
- Jim
Sethna, Entropy,
Order Parameters, and Complexity, online textbook. The most
modern and interdisciplinary of the textbooks listed here, with many
excellent, timely, and thought-provoking exercises.
- Leonardo
Susskind
Statistical Mechanics video lectures from
his broader course The Theoretical
Minimum.
- Three undergraduate reference books:
- Other online references:
- Some papers of interest:
Mathematica
Journals
- Journals mainly for physicists.
- Interdisciplinary journals:
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